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Four inches in diameter, deep orange in color, Tetra Marigold has heavy, vigorous petals which make the flower exception ally durable both on the stalk and after cutting. "The colchicine," explained Mr. Burpee, "has about the same effect on the marigold as spinach on Popeye the Sailor...
Last week David Burpee, enterprising Philadelphia horticulturist, announced a new marigold, created by means of colchicine. Ordinary marigolds have two sets of chromosomes in their germ cells; the new one has four. Such plants are called tetraploids. The name of the Burpee creation is "Tetra Marigold" - or Tetra for short...
...Born, To Marigold Rosemary Joyce, Countess of Londesborough, 34, and the late Hugo William Cecil Deniscm, Earl of Londesborough who died last April of pneumonia; a daughter; in London. The posthumous child will inherit the Earl's $5,000,000 but not his title, which became extinct for lack of male issue...
...Wrestling Bradford the dream was so real that when Indians set fire to his church and Marigold was sentenced to burn as a witch he dashed into the flames with her. To many a member of the Metropolitan audience the dream was as unreal with its slinky dancers and baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone...
Merry Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...